Cal State Fullerton communications graduate student Madeline Hovarter collected more than 150 pounds of food for the Second Harvest Food Bank of Orange County.

She organized the two-day food drive on campus by soliciting student volunteers and raising awareness of hunger in Orange County and the drive with commercials on Titan Radio and Titan TV promotion commercials, a Facebook page, banners, posters and flyers.

Hoverter also set up a booth on the Titan Walk to collect donations.

“As a current graduate student of the Professional Communication degree, my goal is to increase awareness of local Orange County hunger and gain the (food bank) more volunteers while collecting donations,” she said.

The data and marketing campaign will go toward her master’s degree final project, Hovarter said. She is set to graduate in December, completing the master’s degree program in a year and a half.

The food drive was successful in getting donations, but it was even more successful in getting CSUF students to be volunteers at the food bank, said Hovarter.

Hovarter chose to donate to the Second Harvest Food Bank of Orange County because of its “well established food distribution throughout Orange County,” she said.

“I loved how involved they were equally with adult and child hunger and had such well organization and implementation set up to get hungry people as much as they need without hassle or confusion,” said Hovarter.

The Second Harvest Food Bank of Orange County serves charity organizations who in turn feed more than 200,000 hungry people in Orange County every month.

Cal State Fullerton communication graduate student Madeline Hovarter organized a two-day food drive for the Second Harvest Food Bank in Orange County. COURTESY OF MADELINE HOVARTER
Madeline Hovarter and volunteers at a booth they set up on the Titan Walk to collect donations for the Second Harvest Food Bank.

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Donation barrels are loaded into a truck. COURTESY OF MADELINE HOVARTER
Banners and posters on campus helped inform the CSUF community about the food drive. COURTESY OF MADELINE HOVARTER
Hovarter and volunteers at a booth on the Titan Walk to collect donations for the Second Harvest Food Bank.

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Madeline Hovarter and her nephew, Chase Hovarter, at a booth set up on the Titan Walk to collect donations for the Second Harvest Food Bank. COURTESY OF MADELINE HOVARTER
Madeline Hovarter and her volunteers at a booth set up on the Titan Walk to collect donations for the Second Harvest Food Bank.COURTESY OF MADELINE HOVARTER
Madeline Hovarter stands with Second Harvest Food Bank truck drivers. COURTESY OF MADELINE HOVARTER
Barrels in the Titan Bookstore allowed students to drop their food donations in for the Second Harvest Food Bank. COURTESY OF MADELINE HOVARTER

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